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john zarrella, and the jet propulsion laboratory in california. and john, i have been watching you for days now and i stayed up and watched when it finally landed. i talked to you this weekend ap it is exciting then and exciting now, and what is the level like there today? >> yeah, it is spectacular and we have treats today for the viewer. you can see the room i'm in and it is actually yellow, because they are duplicating exactly what the conditions are like on mars. what you will see there behind me, that is the engineering model of curiosity.
john zarrella, and the jet propulsion laboratory in california. and john, i have been watching you for days now and i stayed up and watched when it finally landed. i talked to you this weekend ap it is exciting then and exciting now, and what is the level like there today? >> yeah, it is spectacular and we have treats today for the viewer. you can see the room i'm in and it is actually yellow, because they are duplicating exactly what the conditions are like on mars. what you will see...
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john zarrella, and the jet propulsion laboratory in california. and john, i have been watching you for days now and i stayed up and watched when it finally landed. i talked to you this weekend ap it is exciting then and exciting now, and what is the level like there today? >> yeah, it is spectacular and we have treats today for the viewer. you can see the room i'm in and it is actually yellow, because they are duplicating exactly what the conditions are like on mars. what you will see there behind me, that is the engineering model of curiosity. it is an exact duplicate of curiosity, and everything that curiosity is doing on mars, this rover is shadowing here on earth. and you can see that the mast is actually up there, and that is because they have just in the last several hours raised that mast on curiosity on mars so that they'll be getting some of the high fidelity pictures from the lab cams. and they have started a press conference out there at the jet propulsion laboratory, and i promise you new pictures. >> okay. the rims instrument is the w
john zarrella, and the jet propulsion laboratory in california. and john, i have been watching you for days now and i stayed up and watched when it finally landed. i talked to you this weekend ap it is exciting then and exciting now, and what is the level like there today? >> yeah, it is spectacular and we have treats today for the viewer. you can see the room i'm in and it is actually yellow, because they are duplicating exactly what the conditions are like on mars. what you will see...
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john zarrella, thank you so much. appreciate that. >> reporter: sure. >>> we're heading into the final week of competitions aet the olympic games in london. we're going to reflect on some of your favorite moments and my favorite moments, especially since i got to tag along with that gentleman. his name happened to be whitfield, mal whitfield. just before that rich sweetness touches your lips. the delightful discovery, the mid-sweetening realization that you have the house all to yourself. well, almost. the sweet reward, making a delicious choice that's also a smart choice. splenda no-calorie sweetener. with the original sugar-like taste you love and trust. splenda makes the moment yours. i'll give you money for gas. [ laughing ] not necessary. take the money. i'm not taking your money. besides i get great gas mileage. what's that? it's eassist. helps the engine run really efficiently. it captures energy that assists the engine... so i'm never guzzling gas. oh -- that's hippie talk. it's called technology dad... here t
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john zarrella is on top of everything at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. what are we seeing here, john? >> well, don, let me bring you back here real quick before we show you the images again and tell you where we are getting those from and what they do back behind me, and you can see a model of curiosity and the mast there, and on either side of the masts are the circular cameras, ster stereocams and they are called navigation cameras, and they use those to navigate, and then the square cameras in the middle are the mast cameras. so, now, the pictures that they got today came from both of the different instruments, and now the nav cameras took the image that shows the deck of curiosity, and on top of the deck of curiosity, you will see all of the pebbles. they are trying to figure our and in fact, the entry and descent landing team now has a job the do to try to figure out how all of the pebbles got up there, and they think it of course happened when the rocket engines were fire on the descent stage as it was lowering curiosity to the ground and kicked up
john zarrella is on top of everything at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. what are we seeing here, john? >> well, don, let me bring you back here real quick before we show you the images again and tell you where we are getting those from and what they do back behind me, and you can see a model of curiosity and the mast there, and on either side of the masts are the circular cameras, ster stereocams and they are called navigation cameras, and they use those to navigate, and then...
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john za real la report >> john za zarrella reports. >> wolf, curiosity has landed. the most sophisticated piece of equipment is on the ground awaiting orders from a jubilant team. they could do nothing but wait for the signal to reach them from 154 million miles away. then suddenly euphoria. an eruption of emotions. [ cheering ] the your kosty rover, the centerpiece of this $2.5 billion mission was alive on the surface. it had survived the ride through the atmosphere. an incredible image taken from an orbiting spacecraft shows curiosity's parachute during the decent. >> all the things that kept me and the rest of the team awake for years. we don't have to dream about it. we don't have to think about it anymore. so it's a great thrill and a great relief for all of us. one of the six wheels sitting on the surface, a blurry image taken through a dust cover. the second a tantalizing slice of the landing site. in new york's time square people watched and cheered as the landing drama unfolded. here the landing team soaked by success. curiosity had threaded the needle righ
john za real la report >> john za zarrella reports. >> wolf, curiosity has landed. the most sophisticated piece of equipment is on the ground awaiting orders from a jubilant team. they could do nothing but wait for the signal to reach them from 154 million miles away. then suddenly euphoria. an eruption of emotions. [ cheering ] the your kosty rover, the centerpiece of this $2.5 billion mission was alive on the surface. it had survived the ride through the atmosphere. an incredible...
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what do we do then, john zarrella? what do we do then? >> all right. >> thank you. we will get back. and here is what else we are working for you in this hour. >>> the shooter in the wisconsin temple tragedy allegedly tried to join the kkk and why his ex-boss said he had to fire wade michael page. >>> then, she was considered a hero for pulling ammunition away from jared loughner, the accused arizona shooter, and now patricia mace is calling for a bill on gun control. >>> and from iowa, hear what a investigator calls the state's biggest fish kill ever. i'm not taking your money. besides i get great gas mileage. what's that? it's eassist. helps the engine run really efficiently. it captures energy that assists the engine... so i'm never guzzling gas. oh -- that's hippie talk. it's called technology dad... here take two dollars. take the money. [ male announcer ] the all new 37 mpg highway chevy malibu eco. from conserving fuel, to the technology that makes it happen. chevy runs deep. to the technology that makes it happen. homicide of young people in america has an i
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cnn's john zarrella is joining us once again from nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california, with the latest details. john, what's going on? >> reporter: you know, wolf, all the attention that curiosity is getting, it is certainly no doubt because of the tremendous pictures. in fact, more tremendous pictures came out today from these cameras up here, the navigation cameras, two on either side, the round ones, and those mass cams, the square cameras. and they showed us pictures of the deck of curiosity taken from above, looking down, showing all kinds of little pebbles and rocks on there. also, a panorama shot, a color panorama that came back in thumbnail of the whole surroundings around the rover. and of course, we hope to get full resolution pictures, perhaps as early as tomorrow. if you know what, through all of this curiosity is taking on a personality of its own. it may seem like the curiosity rover is your worst friend on twitter. just sending brag pictures from exotic places, me and my shad kind mount sharp, its operators tweeted on day one. now, it's begging for more
cnn's john zarrella is joining us once again from nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california, with the latest details. john, what's going on? >> reporter: you know, wolf, all the attention that curiosity is getting, it is certainly no doubt because of the tremendous pictures. in fact, more tremendous pictures came out today from these cameras up here, the navigation cameras, two on either side, the round ones, and those mass cams, the square cameras. and they showed us...
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cnn's john zarrella takes us inside. >> reporter: i'm in the surface mission support area. this is where all the data comes down from the spacecraft and is initially gathered. it's quiet in here now. mike watkins, mission manager, is joining us. your shift is about over. i know you want to get some sleep. >> i've been up here for quite a few hours. >> take us through. what happens here? >> okay, so this room here, normally it's packed with engineers here. we're kind of staffed 24/7 for the first couple of weeks of the mission. normally is packed with engineers. we're about to start our transition we talked about earlier today. data comes down via mars odyssey. a little bit comes by the big antennas of the deep space network. that downlink comes first through this room. each of the engineers take a look at what that data's telling them. if you look at each of these stations, we've got power, thermal. the payload health, flight software. the engineers look at that. they make sure the rover's healthy. they get a first look at new pictures, at first payload telemetry, is everyt
cnn's john zarrella takes us inside. >> reporter: i'm in the surface mission support area. this is where all the data comes down from the spacecraft and is initially gathered. it's quiet in here now. mike watkins, mission manager, is joining us. your shift is about over. i know you want to get some sleep. >> i've been up here for quite a few hours. >> take us through. what happens here? >> okay, so this room here, normally it's packed with engineers here. we're kind of...
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john zarrella is all over these pictures. they are amazing, john. share some with our viewers. >> reporter: wolf, we're going to do that. i want to tell you right now this is the curiosity rover behind me -- a model of the rover. and i want to show -- tell people, first off, right now it's 15 degrees below zero on mars where the rover is. it's actually a warm day there. and look at this. this is the rover 1997, july 4th, it landed on mars. you can see how far they have come here at jpl from that to this. and rob manning, the chief engineer is joining me. rob, all the incredible pictures coming back that we've gotten. show us the ones we actually saw the mountain in the distance. >> that's right. this is taken by one of the two redundant cams. there's a left and right haz cam. we have redundant set of those. but this camera right here took the first image of this beautiful mountain. almost as high as mt. mckinly. a fantastic place. >> reporter: if we come around this side of the rover, the images we saw as it was descending through the atmosphere. >>
john zarrella is all over these pictures. they are amazing, john. share some with our viewers. >> reporter: wolf, we're going to do that. i want to tell you right now this is the curiosity rover behind me -- a model of the rover. and i want to show -- tell people, first off, right now it's 15 degrees below zero on mars where the rover is. it's actually a warm day there. and look at this. this is the rover 1997, july 4th, it landed on mars. you can see how far they have come here at jpl...